Φάρος

See also: φάρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Egyptian [Term?] (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?), or simply from the noun φάρος (pháros, lighthouse), of unknown origin,[1] but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰar- (log, board, plank).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Φᾰ́ρος (Pháros) f (genitive Φᾰ́ρου); second declension

  1. Pharos

Inflection

Descendants

Further reading

  • Φάρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Φάρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Φάρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021

References

  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “φάρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1555
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